And God beheld all that he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day.

and in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and rested in the seventh day from all his works which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; for in it he rested from all his works which he had created and made.

and all the shrubs of the field before they were in the earth. And all the herbs of the field before they sprang: for the LORD God had yet sent no rain upon the earth, neither was there yet any man to till the earth.

The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed.

And after that the LORD God had made of the earth all manner beasts of the field, and all manner fowls of the air, he brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And as Adam called all manner living beasts: even so are their names.

But the serpent was subtler than all the beasts of the field which the LORD God had made; and said unto the woman, "Ah sir, that God hath said, ye shall not eat of all manner trees in the garden."

And after he had begot Enos he lived eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Kenan, after he had begot Mahalalel, lived eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Mahalalel, after he had begot Jared, lived eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Enoch walked with God, after he had begot Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

and Methuselah, after he had begot Lamech, lived seven hundred and eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Lamech lived, after he had begot Noah, five hundred, ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the earth and had begot them daughters,

There were tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children, the same children were the mightiest of the world and men of renown.

he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart.

And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

both they and all manner of beasts in their kind, and all manner of cattle in their kind and all manner of worms that creep upon the earth in their kind, and all manner of birds in their kind, and all manner of fowls whatsoever had feathers.

And they came unto Noah into the ark by couples, of all flesh that had breath of life in it.

so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it, throughout all that was on dry land, died.

And after the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

and the dove came to him again about eventide, and behold: there was in her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked, whereby Noah perceived that the waters were abated upon the earth.

As soon as Noah was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest son had done unto him,

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built.

And Shem lived, after he had begot Arpachshad, five hundred years and begat sons and daughters.

and lived, after he had begot Shelah, four hundred years and three and begat sons and daughters.

and lived, after he had begot Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

and lived, after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

and lived after he had begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Reu, when he had lived thirty two years, begat Serug,

and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

and lived, after he had begot Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

and lived, after he had begot Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

But Sarai was barren and had no child.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, with all their goods which they had gotten, and souls which they had begotten in Haran. And they departed to go into the land of Canaan. And when they were come into the land of Canaan,

which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.

Pharaoh also gave a charge unto his men over Abram, to lead him out, with his wife and all that he had.

Then Abram departed out of Egypt; both he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him unto the south.

Lot also, which went with him, had sheep, cattle and tents:

Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.

Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian - after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan - and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her sight.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants born in his house, and all that was bought with money; as many as were men children among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh, even the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and stood himself by them under the tree: and they ate.

And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place.

And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law.

When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."

and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace.

But Abimelech had not yet come nigh her, and therefore said, "LORD, wilt thou slay righteous people?

For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.

The LORD visited Sara as he had said, and did unto her according as he had spoken.

And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.

And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.

Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his men with him, and Isaac his son: and clove wood for the sacrifice, and rose up and got him to the place which God had appointed him.

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.

And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had, "Put thy hand under my thigh

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

And it came to pass, yer he had left speaking, that Rebekah came out - the daughter of Bethuel, son to Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother - and her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And when she had given him drink, she said, "I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough."

And the fellow wondered at her. But held his peace, to wete whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

And as the camels had left drinking, he took an earring of half a sicle weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten sicles weight of gold,

And Rebekah had a brother called Laban. And Laban ran out unto the man, to the well:

for as soon as he had seen the earrings and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying "thus said the man unto me," then he went out unto the man. And lo, he stood yet with the camels by the well side.

And before I had made an end of speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth, and her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well and drew. And I said unto her, 'give me drink.'

And I bowed myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

But Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.

And it happened after he had been there long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife.

that he had possession of sheep, of oxen, and a mighty household; so that the Philistines had envy at him,

And Isaac digged again, the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, and gave them the same names which his father gave them.

And the same day came Isaac's servants, and told him of a well which they had digged: and said unto him, that they had found water.

And she went and fetched goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which she had in the house with her, and put them upon Jacob her youngest son,

And she put the meat and bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob.

As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting:

and had made also meat, and brought it in unto his father and said unto him, "Arise my father and eat of thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me."

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying 'see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,'

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

then went he unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wife.

And Jacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head, and pitched it up on end, and poured oil on the top of it.

And Laban had two daughters, the eldest called Lea and the youngest Rachel.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country;

And he took out that same day the he-goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons,

And he put the staves which he had peeled even before the sheep; in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

And the man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.

and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan.

Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

So fled he, and all that he had, and made himself ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead.

And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead.

Then said Laban to Jacob, "Why hast thou this done, unknowing to me, and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword?

But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee." For Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them.

And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday."

And he took them and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had,

Jacob answered, "O nay, but if I have found grace in thy sight, receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God: wherefore receive me to grace

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dina, his daughter, but his sons were with the cattle in the field: and therefore he held his peace, until they were come.